An image of an HTC phone, possibly the successor of HTC One, has been posted on Twitter by Russian site HTCFamily.ru. The device, code-named HTC M8, seems to have a casing very similar to the HTC One, but it has two camera lenses on the back, as well...

Ditch your smartphone contract as soon as possible, and never sign another one again. That might mean today. Or in a few months. Or even two years from now. Whatever the best answer is, know it and do it. I was originally supposed to write an analysi...

A new Android KitKat feature called "tap and pay" will not only let you buy things with a wave of your smartphone, but also may let you open a hotel room, enter a stadium or even unlock your front door. In latest video of our Ask a Dev series, Androi...

Europe’s biggest phone companies have put the brakes on a flurry of asset sales as they brace for the likely entry by AT&T Inc. into the $313 billion market. Deutsche Telekom AG and Orange SA of France, among those evaluating options, have slowed an ...

Could Apple be bringing a bit of bling to its next generation of iPhones? According to the Japanese publication Macotakara, a gold smartphone may indeed be in the cards for Apple, which is expected to launch a revamped iPhone handset later this year ...

Security flaws in the code that connects your phone to 3G networks could allow anyone to track it, according to research from the University of Birmingham with collaboration from the Technical University of Berlin. The flaws, reported by SC Magazine,...

ViewSonic's ViewPhone 3, which accepts dual SIM cards, will be unveiled at CES next week and be available for the first time in the United States. The dual SIM feature, which is popular in markets outside the U.S., can be used to keep business separa...

Sprint is making a serious play at Apple's iPhone 4S with the launch of the HTC EVO Design 4G, the first phone in the EVO family with full world phone capabilities. The announcement comes less than a week after the release of the iPhone 4S, Apple's n...

Chris Moody leads the marketing efforts for Phonebooth.com, a leading small business phone systems provider built by smart software guys. He frequently guest lectures at local universities, discussing social media and new marketing methods. You are a...

HTC, a company that builds smartphones based on Android and Windows Phone 7 operating systems, is mulling a purchase of a new mobile OS, HTC CEO Cher Wang told the Economic Observer of China. "We have given it thought and we have discussed it interna...

This post reflects the opinions of the author and not necessarily those of Mashable as a publication. Sam Shrauger is vice president of Global Product and Experience at PayPal. Most recently, Shrauger served as VP of Global Product Strategy where he ...

T-Mobile has a new device in its Android roster, the T-Mobile G2x. It is essentially the same phone as LG Optimus 2X, which makes it one of the most powerful Android devices on the market. The T-Mobile G2x features a dual-core 1 Ghz Tegra chip, a 4-i...

Hot on the heels of two recent device launches from INQ and HTC, with both companies adding Facebook integration and (in the case of HTC's Salsa and ChaCha) a physical Facebook button to their smartphones, Facebook promises many more devices to bring...

HTC waited for its competitors in the Android smartphone/tablet arena to show off their wares on day one of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, only to burst on the stage on day two with an onslaught of Android devices, many of which will definit...

Contrary to Wednesday's report, Facebook has denied partnering with HTC for a mobile device. The two rumored devices from HTC appear to be real, but Facebook's involvement in their development isn't as important as the report claimed. Speaking at a c...

Update: Facebook has denied having partnered with HTC on a mobile device. Dan Rose, head of business development at Facebook, said the device is "just another example of a manufacturer who has taken our public APIs (application programing interfaces)...

Samsung has announced that it has sold more than 10 million of its flagship Android smartphone, the Galaxy S, in just less than seven months. Samsung's Android bet has paid off from the start; after an extensive marketing campaign, Samsung shipped mo...

Sometimes a device doesn't get it right immediately. It might get rushed to market, or maybe some bugs just slip through the final tests. It's expected, and it happens to the best of them. Fortunately, modern hardware is a lot smarter than it was eve...

Microsoft's Kin was one of the biggest failures in the mobile industry this year, having been pulled after only three months on the market. Seeing both Kin One and Kin Two come back to Verizon's inventory is definitely a surprise, but that's exactly ...

Shane Snow is a technology journalist in New York City. Follow him on Twitter at @shanesnow. At the recent New York Tech Meetup (a monthly event where 700+ geeks preview new technologies), some students from Brown University demonstrated a game where...

Japanese mobile carrier KDDI has launched a new clamshell phone with distinctive aesthetics. The X-Ray was created by designer Tokujin Yoshioka and features a see-through case that comes in three colors: red, blue and black. The shell lets you see th...

RIM and Sprint have announced BlackBerry Style 9670, a new smartphone with a flip design, a full QWERTY keyboard and two screens, available only at Sprint come October 31. The Style features BlackBerry 6 OS, a 5-megapixel camera with Flash and video ...

French mobile phone carrier SFR appears to have outed the Palm Pre 2 Monday, posting basic specifications and a couple of images, describing the device as "flatter" and "more refined" than the original. The follow-up to last year's ambitious but not-...

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. When it comes to business communication, Skype is an invaluable tool. Its ...

A year after seventh grade teacher Elizabeth Delmatoff started a pilot social media program in her Portland, Oregon classroom, 20% of students school-wide were completing extra assignments for no credit, grades had gone up more than 50%, and chronic ...

Xavier Facon is CTO at Crisp Wireless, a rich media advertising technology company based in New York City. He blogs regularly about ad technology and mobile best practices. Close to five years have passed since the early mobile ad networks emerged wi...

Dan Klamm is the Outreach & Marketing Coordinator at Syracuse University Career Services. This post was co-authored by Kelly Lux who is the Social Media Manager at Syracuse University's iSchool. Connect with them on Twitter @DanKlamm and @KellyLux. L...

The mobile voice over IP (VoIP) service Fring now allows its users to make phone calls to land line and cell phone numbers anywhere in the world with prices starting at one cent per minute. Not all calls will be that cheap. Calls to Canada start at 0...

Today Facebook denied rumors that it's building a phone, and though that probably means there technically won't be a Facebook-branded phone any time soon, some of what the company is doing in the mobile space could still be worthy of enthusiasm. In i...

Bill Zielke is senior director of Merchant Services at PayPal, which recently announced the initial rollout of Mobile Express Checkout. Bill is responsible for the development and marketing of product strategies related to PayPal, and for counseling ...

Over the weekend, Google announced a new feature for Google Voice: The ability to receive notifications of missed calls in e-mail form. It's a welcome feature, but as is often the case with new Google application additions, it's hidden away in the se...

Mark Papermaster, the senior vice president ultimately responsible for the iPhone's hardware, has left Apple only a short time after his start date. Neither Papermaster nor Apple will comment on the story behind the departure, but insiders are specul...

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